“A Long Island military veteran committed suicide Sunday afternoon in the parking lot of the Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center after allegedly being denied service, according to a report in The New York Times.”

Twenty veterans die a day from suicide.

If you, or someone you know has risk factors of suicide, call the U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255)

“’When we say that a gun present in a domestic violence situation makes it five times more likely that the woman will be murdered, that includes instances where the gun was purchased by the murderer, but also cases where the gun was purchased by the woman,”’he added.

"'Over the past 25 years, more intimate partner homicides in the U.S. have been committed with guns than with all other weapons combined,’ explains a report from Everytown For Gun Safety. ‘Women in the United States are eleven times more likely to be murdered with guns than women in other high-income countries.’ As Rosen noted, the presence of a gun quintuples the likelihood of a domestic violence victim being murdered."

One of our partner organizations, Rabbis Against Gun Violence, put together this great toolkit for hosting a local concert for the Concert Across America to End Gun Violence on September 25th. Please let us know if you would like to organize a concert in your community – ncgv@ncgv.org

Great news! Facebook changed its policy to ban sales not only of private transfers but also private transfers from federally licensed dealers.

“Instead, it now reads: ‘We prohibit any attempts by private individuals to purchase, sell, or trade prescription drugs, marijuana, firearms or ammunition.’ With just two new words–‘private individuals’–it’s small as policy changes go."